Future shock: Forget UFOs and alien abduction – the conspiracy of the week is time-travel. This week we have the man who takes a lie-detector test to prove that he came here from 2030, while in another video Alexander Smith claims that in 1981 he was transported to the year 2118.

Doggone: What would a dog show be without dogs? Quite entertaining actually as you can see from this video.

Speaking of dogs: Britain has its first water sniffer dog. The cocker spaniel is employed by United Utilities to sniff out leaks from underground pipes.

Meanwhile, a physicist at Oxford University has won the Science Photography Competition for his image of a single atom caught in an ion trap that is visible to the naked eye, or at least the light emanating from it.

It’s all me, me, me: Twenty years ago, the most popular pronoun in song lyrics was ‘you’. Since then ‘you’ has been usurped by ‘I’ and ‘me’. (Ed Sheeran’s Shape of You contains ‘I’, ‘me’ or ‘my’ more than fifty times.

Sport unites: American politics isn’t quite as polarised as we might imagine. GOP and Democratic senators for Colorado show that they can agree on many things when it comes to the Winter Olympics.

Poll watch: When asked who would be the preferred Tory politician to succeed Theresa May, the most popular choice was ‘none of the above‘ for 57% of those polled.